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Career Experience

Musgrave entered the United States Marine Corps in 1953, served as an aviation electrician and instrument technician, and as an aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS WASP in the Far East. He has flown 17,700 hours in 160 different types of civilian and military aircraft, including 7,500 hours in jet aircraft. He has earned FAA ratings for instructor, instrument instructor, glider instructor, and airline transport pilot, and U.S. Air Force Wings. An accomplished parachutist, he has made more than 500 free falls -- including over 100 experimental free-fall descents involved with the study of human aerodynamics. Dr. Musgrave was employed as a mathematician and operations analyst by the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, during 1958. He served a surgical internship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington from 1964 to 1965, and continued there as a U. S. Air Force post-doctoral fellow (1965-1966), working in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart Institute post-doctoral fellow (1966-1967), teaching and doing research in cardiovascular and exercise physiology. From 1967 to 1989, he continued clinical and scientific training as a part-time surgeon at the Denver General Hospital and as a part-time professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He has written 25 scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine and physiology, temperature regulation, exercise physiology, and clinical surgery.



Education and Awards

Education:
Graduated from St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, in 1953, received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and statistics from Syracuse University in 1958, a master of business administration degree in operations analysis and computer programming from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1959, a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Marietta College in 1960, a doctorate in medicine from Columbia University in 1964, a master of science in physiology and biophysics from the University of Kentucky in 1966, and a master of arts in literature from the University of Houston in 1987.
Organisation member:
Alpha Kappa Psi the American Association for the Advancement of Science Beta Gamma Sigma The Civil Aviation Medical Association The Flying Physicians Association The International Academy of Astronautics The Marine Corps Aviation Association The National Aeronautic Association The National Aerospace Education Council The National Geographic Society The Navy League The New York Academy of Sciences Omicron Delta Kappa Phi Delta Theta The Soaring Club of Houston The Soaring Society of America The United States Parachute Association
Special honors:
National Defense Service Medal Outstanding Unit Citation as a member of the United States Marine Corps Squadron VMA-212 (1954), United States Air Force Post-doctoral Fellowship (1965-1966), National Heart Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship (1966-1967), Reese Air Force Base Commander's Trophy (1969), American College of Surgeons I.S. Ravdin Lecture (1973), NASA Exceptional Service Medals (1974 & 1986), Flying Physicians Association Airman of the Year Award (1974 & 1983), NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1996), NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1992).
 

jmcquate

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He is a true renaissance man. I had the pleasure of meeting him and the rest of the crew of STS-80 after a post flight brief for JSC employees.

And if memory serves me, he also holds the NASA record for the most ex-wives attending a launch…..3.
 

zpatman

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And if memory serves me, he also holds the NASA record for the most ex-wives attending a launch…..3.

He is...the most interesting man in the world
 

East

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Had the honor to meet the man himself in Noordwijk, The Netherlands at an ESA conference.
Very inspiring and motivating individual!
 

Reconjoe

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I had the honor of meeting/helping him several times at Marshall Space flight center when he was working on his photographic book of the T-38. Amazing gentleman, with some very....very interesting relationship advice which he seems all too willing to share if you strike up the right conversation. I believe he just had his last child only a few years ago with a nice blonde not even half his age. Semper....
 
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